Matthew Vaughan is the Director of Aviation Security at IATA. Previously, he worked for Etihad Airways for over 8 years, 5 of them as the Head of Aviation Security. In IATA he is focusing on the promotion of baseline compliance to Aviation Security standards and recommended practices as well as leveraging an all-hazards, risk-based approach through strategic threat analysis and business continuity planning in a high threat, high reliability industry.

Marcelo Ivo de Carvalho is a specialist in Criminal Sciences and a Commissioner of the Federal Police of Brazil since 2003. Previously working as Head of the National Airport Security Office in Brasília and Head of the Federal Police Station at Guarulhos International Airport, currently he’s serving as Regional Director of Organized Crime Investigations of the Federal Police in the State of São Paulo. At AVSEC he will be talking about how to combat narco-trafficking in airports.

Jean-Claude Nanche

Head of Aircraft security, Airbus commercial aircraft

Former A350 chief Airworthiness Engineer, Jean-Claude Nanche has certified the A350 in Europe, US and more than 10 countries before taking the position of head of Aircraft security for Airbus commercial aircraft. The Airbus Security Centre of competence is managing both physical and cyber security for Airbus commercial Aircraft.

Philip D. Baum

Managing Director, Green Light Ltd.

In 1996 Philip established Green Light, through which he serves as a subject matter expert for the Airports Council International (ACI) in the area of Behavioural Analysis and runs training courses for them. Likewise, Philip designs and delivers IATA Inflight Security courses and has worked with IATA on the way behavioural analysis might be incorporated into (what was originally called) the ‘Checkpoint of the Future’, the pre-cursor to ‘Smart Security’.

Eman Al Awadhi

Vice President of Cyber Security and Resilience, Expo 2020 Dubai

As VP of Cyber Security and Resilience at Expo 2020 Dubai, Eman Al Awadhi is responsible for defining and executing the strategic direction for safeguarding Expo 2020 from cyber threats. Eman has more than 10 years of enriched cyber security experience. Prior to joining Expo 2020 Dubai in 2016, she was a Network Security Engineer in the Telecommunication Regulatory Authority’s UAE Computer Emergency Response Team (aeCERT).

Peter Burow

Behavioural Strategist, NeuroPower

Peter Burow is a behavioural strategist and advisor to senior executives around the world on behavioural analysis. Peter is the author of the NeuroPower framework which elegantly brings together psychology, neuroscience, behavioural economics and systems theory into an integrated understanding of human behaviour. NeuroPower is being applied by governments, businesses and communities in 20+ countries.

Sir Gary Coward KBE CB

Chairman, Redline Assured Security Ltd.

Sir Gary is a strategic consultant and non-executive director operating in the defence, aerospace and security sectors. In addition to his commercial roles, Sir Gary is the Deputy Colonel Commandant of the AAC, President of the AAC Veterans' Association and Air OP Association, a trustee of the Duke of York’s Royal Military School and Chairman of the Army Flying Museum.

Dr. Alan Miller

Director, Liquate(HK) Ltd.

Dr. Miller is a board executive and consultant with more than 20 years' experience in technology, engineering strategy, and execution. He has served in senior executive capacity across the private sector and consults at board and high decision- making government execution level.

Gary Wade

Vice President Security, Atlas Air Worldwide

Gary Wade is responsible for Global Security at Atlas Air Worldwide. Prior to coming to Atlas, Mr. Wade served as the Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Air Marshal Service at Atlanta's Hartsfield International Airport. Previously, he was a Special Agent for the Drug Enforcement Administration for over 30 years, assigned to offices in Detroit, Miami, Washington, D.C. and Quantico, VA.

Steve Van Aperen

Behavioural Interview Expert, SVA Training

Steve van Aperen is an expert in the field of behavioural interviewing, reading body language, detecting deception and changing behaviours. He has conducted behavioural interviews on 78 homicide and 2 serial killer investigations and consults his services to fortune 500 companies, police departments, intelligence agencies and government departments throughout the world.

Michelle Tsing

Founder of Elevate the Blockchain Inc.

She was an attorney at PayPal, where she helped the Large Merchant Services team achieved ubiquity. Prior to PayPal, she was at Cisco, eBay, Samsung and Apple. She co-founded a blockchain payments startup in 2015 and is a strategic advisor to a number of AI, blockchain and 3D printing companies. She is also a mentor for Singularity University Ventures, Berkeley Blockchain Accelerator, SVI Academy and Hack Temple, which are tech incubators located in the United States.

Andrew Nicholson

Founder of Osprey

Andrew spent 12 years in the Royal Navy, 6 with UK Special Forces, which included operational tours in all major conflict regions. After military service, Andrew led the maritime and oil and gas divisions for the largest provider of maritime security in the industry. Andrew also founded Osprey Flight Solutions - now IATA’s partner for open source risk management data - with the aim of driving a quantum shift in the capabilities available to the industry for risk management.

Martin Underwood

Manging Director, Tonanti Limited

Martin Underwood is the Manging Director, Tonanti Limited and an independent consultant in Defence, Security and related matters, with his main area of expertise in ammunition and explosives. Serving in the British Army for 25 years, he completed operational tours in Northern Ireland, Former Yugoslavia and in Iraq and was awarded the United States Bronze Star Medal. Later, he was the Technical Advisor in NATO Allied Command Transformation and worked with UN.

Mike Horne

General Manager, Latecoere Interconnection Systems UK LTD

Mike Horne BEng CEng FIET is General Manager of Latecoere Interconnection Systems UK LTD. He has worked extensively in video camera systems for a wide variety of purposes from missile guidance and fire control, to pipe inspection and commercial security. Former working group chair for the European Organisation for Civil Aviation Equipment (EUROCAE), he is now working to develop the first UK subsidiary of the major French aerospace company.

Kim Ann is a member of the Wales Anti Slavery Leadership Group and is the Strategic Objectives Programme Lead. Kim Ann collaborates with Council of Europe GRETA Experts and ICMPD to share the good practice she has developed in Wales. In the Queens Birthday Honours 2018 Kim Ann was made a Member of the British Empire for her contribution to Law and Order for combatting modern slavery, human trafficking and Female Genital Mutilation.

Sidney Chau Foo Cheong

International Aviation Security Consultant

Mr. Chau served in the Hong Kong Police from 1970 to 2004 and specialized in operational duties, criminal investigation and national security. In the 80's he was seconded to Interpol General Secretariat in Paris, France. Later, Mr. Chau was the head of the Aviation Security Company Ltd. which was responsible for aviation security at the Hong Kong International Airport. Currently, he is the Director of Starfire Technology (AI & IOT) Group Ltd. in Hong Kong.

Richard Davis

Head of Airline Security in the U.S

Richard Davis is the longest serving head of airline security in the U.S. and the world and one of only 9 heads of security that are members of both the prestigious OSAC and DSAC Leadership Board councils sponsored by the U.S. Department of State and FBI/DHS respectively. He is very engaged in the United Airlines Leadership Competencies and extremely respected in the aviation security community, chief security officer population and throughout the federal government.

Dr David Rubens DSyRM, CSyP, F.ISRM, FSyI is CEO of Deltar Training Services Ltd, and Executive Director of the Institute of Strategic Risk Management. He currently runs training programmes for strategic risk and crisis managers around the world, delivering training in seventeen countries in SE Asia, Middle East, Africa, Latin America and Europe since January 2017.

Dave Brooks, PhD, MSc, BSc,

Graduate Security Science Coordinator, Edith Cowan University

Dave Brooks, PhD, MSc, BSc, is the Graduate Security Science Coordinator at Edith Cowan University (ECU). After serving in Military Air Defence, Dave moved into Electronic Security and Consultancy, prior to his current academic role. For the past 17 years, Dave has undertaken research and teaching in ECU’s Security Science program, with a focus on corporate security, security design and defeat evaluation, and more recently with Intelligent Building systems.

Hany is an experienced airline professional, with over 20 years’ experience in the aviation and travel industries, progressively holding executive leadership positions in various airlines’ ground operations, safety, quality and security divisions in the UK and the Gulf region.
Prior to joining MedAire & International SOS, Hany was most recently part of the executive leadership team of the Qatar Airways Group as their Acting VP Group Security.

Greg Peckinpaugh

Special Agent, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)

Greg Peckinpaugh is Chief Security Officer for Addison Global who served as a Special Agent with the United States Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration up until April of 2019. His primary focus was in the interdiction aspect and movement of illegal narcotics and currency. He is also a Senior Instructor Development Certified Instructor and has instructed classes all over the world.

Brig Muhammad Zubair

Deputy Director General, Airports Security Force, Pakistan

Army Officer having 34 years of service, an ICAO Certified Aviation Security Professional Manager with varied experience in handling of Internal Security issues related to counter terrorism. Presently is serving as Deputy Director General, Airports Security Force, Pakistan. Previously he was a Military Observer in United Nation Mission in East Timor and UN Peace Keeping Mission in Congo, Chief of Staff at different Military Headquarters and Deputy Military Secretary to President of Pakistan.

Sarah Clifford

Sr. Manager, Immigration New Zealand (INZ)

Sarah Clifford is a senior manager with 19 years’ experience within Immigration New Zealand (INZ). During her tenure, Sarah has held a variety of leadership and operational roles both in New Zealand as well as diplomatic secondments to Vietnam and the Philippines.
Currently based in Christchurch, Sarah has been directly involved in leading the INZ response to the Christchurch Mosque attacks on 15 March 2019.

SSA Gates has been with the FBI since 2003 and he has been assigned to Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) for most of his career. He is considered one of the FBI’s subject matter experts on aviation crime and airport operations, and often provides training and guidance to FBI agents assigned to airports across the United States. SSA Gates has responded to hundreds of crimes on board aircraft and arrested hundreds of offenders in his time at LAX.

Bryce Jacobs-Shannon

K-9 Program Manager, Transguard Group

With 13+ years of training experience and nearly two decades in the security services sector, Bryce Jacobs-Shannon is a passionate expert in the training and development of explosive detection canine services. As the K-9 Program Manager at Transguard Group, Bryce is responsible for training not only staff and animals, but also for developing and monitoring the training programs and their progress. Bryce previously worked throughout Iraq and Afghanistan in support of the U.S. military and government operations as a Canine Handler and Canine Trainer.